Daily Tip: Scrub Your Task List

With the end of the year approaching, it’s a good time to sit down, take stock, and realize that your task list has a bunch of items on it that you’ve refused to address for months. Some people take the somewhat-slower weeks before the end of the year to deal with at least some of these items in a mad rush. But what if you eliminated them from your list entirely?

Granted, some things must be done—if you promised to add that feature to your app, or if you vowed to launch or shut down some initiative, it’s pretty clear that you’re locked into that course of action. Many of the things moldering on your list, however, are still there because (whether you’ve admitted it to yourself or not) they’re not a priority—and you can feel free to eliminate them. Start 2015 with a clean slate.